Hi, I've been using flexASIO with other programs for quite a while now with no problems.

My guitar amp sims all use it just fine (TonelibGFX, MidiGuitar 2, Guitar Rig 6)

Other DAW's seem to be fine with it too and I can use live monitoring with VST effects without any problems.

For those unaware, flexASIO is basically the same as ASIO2WASAPI / asio4all (or the pre-packaged "Magix Low Latency 2016" asio4all clone) but with shared mode. That means you can run multiple audio devices and programs all at once. (plus the input sounds cleaner than the magix driver for some reason..)

For example, you can monitor your guitar running through a USB cable while playing along to a backing track coming from youtube running on your on-board sound card and be in a zoom meeting (or in my case, discord call) all simultaneously.

I've had 3 separate softwares all monitoring the same flexasio driver at once and all output to "audacity" recording the stereo mix before, Just to see if I could do it. (it was easy and worked flawlessly.)

So why do all of MAGIX's programs refuse to use flexASIO?..

When I try to load it, I get the error:
"FlexASIO loading failed."
"No ASIO Driver Error"

Sometimes it won't show this popup and will seemingly load all the relevant information like the buffer size and devices but then when it tries to monitor the audio I get that same error message.

I'm convinced this is a bug with the way magix's software handles ASIO drivers (and if so, i've wasted money buying their software) but as a sanity check I would like to know if it's just me or if anyone else has had any luck with flexASIO or an alternative with shared mode enabled.

I'm able to use the "Magix Low Latency 2016" driver just fine with magix's programs, but it is a vastly inferior version of ASIO. mostly because of the lack of shared mode and the sound quality.

Thanks in advance for any information anyone can provide on this matter.